Verizon customers were upset last year when it appeared that they would not get a shot at the HTC One. At the time, it was thought that Verizon wanted to give the HTC DROID DNA some more time on the shelves instead of releasing HTC's new flagship model. Finally, well after the other three major U.S. carriers had released it, Verizon finally launched the HTC One.

But this year, Big Red subscribers are getting their revenge. Verizon customers, are you sitting down? According to a source characterized as being "trusted," Verizon will release the all new HTC One (M8) on March 25th at 1pm EDT. No other carrier in the states will be selling the phone for at least two weeks from Big Red's launch of the phone.

Pricing is unknown, but with a tweet from evleaks earlier Saturday calling for a $600 off-contract price for the unit, we should see it priced at the usual $199.99 with a signed two-year pact. Also, we should remind you that with any rumor of this magnitude, the report should be taken with a grain of salt. If true, all we could say to customers of the other three major U.S. carriers is that payback is a bitch.

As a verizon customer, I loathe VZW...The only reason I stay with them is because of their coverage. There are so many devices that I would give my left nut to have on Verizon's network (need I even say 'Nexus'?).
This is a good gesture none the less... Certainly does not make Verizon better... I feel 'Better' is relative

I don't believe this so called "trusted" source. Why would at&t also be advertising the phone and giving 1 away a day? It doesn't make any sense to me. Also I have a hard time trusting these rumors remember all the "trusted" leaks saying the s5 would have a 2k screen 3 gigs of ram and so on. That would be a bad deal for htc to only sell to Verizon customers for 2 weeks they need every sale they can get.

Lol, who cares about that exclusivity. Now if they made the S5 exclusive for those two weeks, people probably would have actually flocked. The fact that a phone (that's trying to be popular) needs to let itself be a carrier exclusive probably isn't all that popular to begin with. This is along the lines of those lame Nokia Lumia phones and AT&T holding exclusivity on them for months.

I don't think it's like that at all. Verizon paid HTC to give them exclusivity for a while because they think this phone has a lot of hype surrounding it which will draw some attention to Verizon. If the nation's largest carrier thinks this phone will make waves, I think it's something to look out for.

Actually now that i think about this article, phone arena, and their leaksters i bet it is bulls**t. I just want the phone on time i don't really care about exclusivity. All the leaksters suck huge wiener anyway they are never right about anything

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Hey papss glad i found you now. I want to thank you a mouthful. Last week we were talking bout my low res phone. I think you gave me a lot of curses and hatred. And the result after 3 days. My uncle gifted me a brand NEW NEXUS 7 2013. He was returning home after a long time. Found the nexus for sale at cheap so he brought it to me. Again thanks mate.

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